27 May 2018

SOVEREIGNTY AND SUFFERING 6. ZOPHAR (Job Chs 11 & 20)

1) HIS INSULT! (11:1-6,12)

  • You are a shameful mocking babbler
  • You claim to be clean when you’re not
  • You are getting off lightly
  • You are a worthless, sinful, stupid man

 

2) HIS INQUEST! (11:7-20)

  • Can you fathom the mystery of God?
  • Can you measure the limits of One who is limitless?
  • Can you thwart the summons of the Judge?
  • I know what is required of you

 

3) HIS INDICTMENT! (Ch20)

  • The wicked and godless perish in their dung
  • God sends His burning anger against the wicked
  • Terror, darkness, destruction & wrath are the wicked man’s portion

 

APPLICATIONS:

  • Beware of orthodoxy clothed in cruelty
  • Beware of the nonsense of neat and tidy theology.  The godly do suffer!
  • In pain it’s the ultimate not the immediate that is promised
  • Cast all your cares on the Man of Sorrows